Improvement in shawl-strap plates



UNITED STATES HEINRICH SPEER, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHAWL-STRAP PLATES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 151,929, datcd June 9, 1874; applicatlon filed March 9. 1874.

To all whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, HEINRICH SPEER, of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shawl-Strap Plates, of which the following is a specication:

Figure l is a top view of my improved shawlstrap plate; Fig. 2, an edge view ofthe same 5 and Fig. 3, a top `view of a shawlstrap plate of ordinary construction, which my invention is intended to improve.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

The object of this invention is to produce a shawl-strap plate of such kind that the same will not be apt to be injured by the straps with which it is connected, nor apt to injure such straps, the invention applying more particularly to that kind of plates in which slots are formed for the reception of the straps.

Fig. 3 represents a plate of ordinary construction, in which slots al were made near the ends for the reception ot' the straps, said straps passing through the slots at each end over the bridge b, between the slots or under said bridge.

It will be readily observed that under such construction the stra-p was likely to be cut, because it was either subjected to a very sharp bend over thenarrow bridge b, that remains between the two slots al at each end of the plate, and that, at the same time, if considerable weight was attached to such a strap, it was apt to rupturethe narrow bridge aforesaid, and at any rate apt to bend the bridge down and injure the entire shawl-strap plate, and if the strap was drawn under the bridge b it would bend the weakened sides of the plate A down, and also dislgure and injure the same. In fact, it has been found that plates of this construction are not useful in practice. My invention consists in attaching eyes, a4, to the sides of the shawl-strap A2, as shown in Fig. 1, so that the eyes will be outside of the pla-tethat is to say, the pla-te will not be reduced in width by the application of these eyes and their openings. If a strap is then drawn down through the two pairs of eyes at each end it will bear upon and pass over the entire width of the transversely rounded shawl-strap plate, and will thus have a firm and broad support, .being thereby protected from being cut by contact with the edges ofthe eyes, and at the same time not liable to injure the plate, even if a great weight should be attached to the strap, as the plate is not weakened transversely by the application of the eyes at.

I do not intend to clailn a shawl-strap plate made with slots for the reception of the straps, as I know that such have been made before; but

I do claim as my invention and desireto secure by Letters Patent- The shawl-strap plate A2, with side projectin g eyes a4 c4 for the reception of the straps, struck out of a single piece ot metal, and provided with the rings a2 a2 for the attachment of a handle, substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore vdescribed and set forth.

HEINRICH SPEER. fitnessesz I J AMEs T. GRAHAM, T. B. Mosr-IER. 

